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- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave…
- Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
- Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not…
- The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
- To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
- Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases…
- Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
- One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play,…
- Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
- It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates,…
- I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally…
- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its…
- To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which…
- Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to…
- I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the…
- The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
- Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
- Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do…
- Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of…
- A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.
- The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
- There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough…
- Dancing is, in itself, a very trifling and silly thing: but it is one of those established follies to which people of sense are sometimes…
- For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives…
- If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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